Birth Control

Birth control availability
By James Johnson
Should birth control be available over the counter? I say yes and let me tell you why. Being a teen I see and hear what goes on around high school and you would be surprised how many kids have sex and how many times a day. Kids, who get pregnant, are going to do it regardless. No parent, no class, and no teacher are going to tell them what to do if that’s what they want to do. I’m sorry that’s the way it works, if you don’t like it change it. That’s where birth control comes in. Maybe they do it more but that’s better than ruining a teenager’s life in the future just because they were naïve in the past. Now think the baby and a kid herself raising another human being. Fourteen and fifteen year olds raising kids that’s just kills me inside because there’s no way a baby should be brought up in that environment.
Also let’s think about the mental and physical toll upon the family and child itself. The family knowing that there little princess who was just watching the little mermaid and Dora is now having to become an adult, a parent all of the sudden. In some cases their parents will kick them out or even beat them just because they don’t want to deal with them. Now the actual becoming parent dealing with the social aspect of is just unbearable. I mean teenagers are mean in general and how they treat others is even worse. We do this thing as kids, where we put our whole life as high school students in popularity. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, all these social networks depend all on how many followers you have. The minute you do something bad or in this case becoming pregnant you slowly see your followers go away and you start words like whore pop up and slut. That is just a horrible feeling honestly now I say that kids are mean a lot of people also love the idea of other people having kids. Notice how I put other people…...

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Period 1
Title: Birth Control over the counter
Thesis: As a woman, one should be able to decide for herself whether or not to get birth control.
I. Intro
A. Birth Control is now free, but you still need a prescription (or a different/better hook)
1. As a woman you should be able to choose whether you want to get birth control
a. Having it over the counter can make it easier to decrease the amount of unplanned pregnancy.
B. Transition
I. Evidence
A. Simplify the process
1. Save time and money from going to the doctor
B. For uninsured women, it would decrease the cost, when the price of a visit to the doctor is included
C. Give more access and encourage woman to take birth control.
I. Counter argument
A. Need a doctor’s visit
1. Blood clots and oral contraceptives that are better for some people then others
B. Also some people argue that some people shouldn’t be having sex out of wedlock, which is stupid because it is the woman choice
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1.
B. Talk a little about counter example
C. Ending hook
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Emma Goldman was one of the first one to speak to speak out on the topic of birth control. Goldman recognized that without birth control a woman, either married or single could not really enjoy sexual freedom and pleasure without the fear and worry of unwanted pregnancy.
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